Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
1923
Hitler's failed
putsch
attempt lands him in jail where he takes just nine months to pen
his vitriolic rant,
Mein Kampf.
It sells between eight and nine million copies.
1932
Hitler and Churchill almost meet when the latter is researching his family history in
Munich. Hitler calls off the meeting, considering a washed up politician such as
Churchill unworthy of his time.
1933
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and creates a dictatorship, making Munich the
'capital of the movement' and Obersalzberg, near Berchtesgaden, a second seat of gov-
ernment.
1938
The Munich Agreement allows Hitler to annex the Sudetenlands, a mostly German-
speaking region of Czechoslovakia. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain de-
clares there will be 'peace in our time'.
1939-45
WWII: Hitler invades Poland; Britain, France and, in 1941, the US, declare war on
Germany; Jews are murdered en masse in concentration camps throughout Eastern
Europe during the Holocaust.
1943
Members of the Nazi resistance group,
Die Weisse Rose
(White Rose), are caught dis-
tributing anti-Nazi leaflets at Ludwig Maximilian University and executed a few days
later, following a sham trial.
1945
Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. A broken Germany surrenders to the Al-
lies and is divided into four zones. Bavaria falls into the US Zone.
1945-46
